The lab took part in the online event organized by NeuroTransmitiendo on March 19 and 20, featuring a talk by Luis Sebastián Contreras-Huerta and poster presentations by students and trainees from the team.

On March 19 and 20, the Emotion and Social Decisions Lab (ESDLab) participated in the II Latin American Congress of Cognitive Neuroscience, organized by NeuroTransmitiendo. The event was designed to strengthen academic exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and network-building among researchers and students across the region. It aimed to consolidate a Latin American community engaged in cognitive neuroscience by fostering dialogue, cooperation, and knowledge dissemination in this rapidly growing field.

As part of the congress, Luis Sebastián Contreras-Huerta, Research Director of ESDLab, delivered the talk “Why Do We Help Others? Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of Prosocial Motivation”, focused on the psychological and neural processes underlying prosocial behavior. His presentation offered an integrative perspective on the mechanisms that support helping behavior, in line with one of the lab’s main research areas in social neuroscience and decision-making.

In addition to this talk, members of ESDLab presented three scientific posters reflecting different research lines developed within the lab. Consuelo Ruiz Moya, Lab Manager of ESDLab, together with Matías Carmach, Master’s student in Social Psychology and trainee at the lab, presented the study “Psychological Predictors of Physiological Stress Responses During Ecological Decision-Making in Naval Cadets”, developed in collaboration with the Naval Polytechnic Academy (APOLINAV). Fiorella Macchiavello, Master’s student in Clinical Psychology and trainee at ESDLab, presented the work “Social Cognitive Capacity and Empathy Choice Under Socioeconomic Vulnerability: Dissociating Between Competence and Motivation.” Finally, José Borquéz, Master’s student in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience and trainee at ESDLab, presented the poster “Prosocial Decisions in Socially Vulnerable Populations.”

ESDLab’s participation in this congress reflects the lab’s commitment to research in social neuroscience, the training of new generations of researchers, and the strengthening of academic networks across Latin America.